(now a Four Seasons Hotel) 10 Trinity Square, EC3Built: 1912-1922Architect: Sir Edwin CooperLocation: Tower HillListing: Grade II* (1977) Its position near the top of a rise (Tower Hill) and the open space of Trinity Square make the former headquarters of… Read More »Port of London Authority
Trinity Square, EC3Built: 1793-96, additions and repair 1952-53Architect: Samuel Wyatt (1952-53 work: Sir Albert Edward Richardson)Location: Tower HillListing: Grade I (1950) Samuel was James Wyatt’s less ‘artistic’ but technically very proficient brother and this particular edifice, both in plan and… Read More »Trinity House
(and Tower Ward) Tower Hill and the surrounding Tower Ward take their name from “the most celebrated fortress in Great Britain”: The Tower of London. Note that the Tower itself lies just outside the boundary of the City of London,… Read More »Tower Hill
37-38 Threadneedle Street, EC2Built: 1902-1903Architect: John Macvicar AndersonLocation: Threadneedle StreetListing: Grade II (1972) Between 1725 and 1900, this was the location of a large building known as South Sea House, headquarters of the eponymous South Sea Company. Rebuilt-after a fire… Read More »British Linen Bank
40 Threadneedle Street, EC2Built: not documented (but between 1845 and 1887)Architect: not documentedLocation: Threadneedle StreetListing: Grade II (1977) Squeezed between the Eagle Insurance and British Linen Bank buildings, at the entrance to Adam’s Court, stands an arcaded building with a… Read More »Oriental Bank Co.
41-42 Threadneedle Street, EC2Built: 1902, extended in 1957Architect: John McVicar Anderson (extension by Waterhouse & Ripley)Location: Threadneedle StreetListing: Grade II (1977) This refined, yet very approachable building benefits from its position next to the front court at No. 40 (Adams… Read More »Eagle Insurance
43-47 Threadneedle Street, EC2Built: 1890Architect: T. H. SmithLocation: Threadneedle StreetListing: Grade II (1977) In 1890, a consortium of major British banks (Lloyds, National Provincial, Westminster) together with the Standard Bank of South Africa established a new bank with headquarters in… Read More »Africa Banking Corporation
currently the Threadneedles Hotel 5-6 Threadneedle Street, EC2Built: 1855-56Architect: William and Andrew MoseleyLocation: Threadneedle StreetListing: Grade II (1972) This building is an excellent example of a medium-sized but ‘high-spec’ palazzo of the type favoured by early joint-stock banks in the… Read More »City Bank
51-53 Threadneedle Street and 5 Old Broad Street, EC2Built: 1922-1931Architect: Arthur Joseph Davis (Mewès & Davis)Location: Threadneedle StreetListing: Grade II* (1971) Unlike some other large City ‘ground scrapers’ of the first half of the 20th C., this building does not… Read More »Westminster Bank
Threadneedle Street is among the most iconic City of London streets and therefore rich with historical associations. Rather surprisingly, until the early modern era, both Threadneedle Street and what is now called Old Broad Street, which intersects with Threadneedle, were… Read More »Threadneedle Street